What is M.A Philosophy syllabus in JNU?
You can find the MA Philosophy syllabus of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) in the table below:
MA Philosophy Syllabus for First Semester | |
|---|---|
Philosophical Studies: Problems and Perspectives | Epistemology and Metaphysics: Issues and Problems of Knowing and Being |
Moral and Social Philosophy | Logic and Scientific Methods |
MA Philosophy Syllabus for Second Semester | |
Philosophy of Social Sciences | Philosophy of Language |
Readings in 20th Century Indian Philosophy | Readings in Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology |
MA Philosophy Syllabus for Third and Fourth Semester | |
Reading a Philosopher | Project on a Philosophical Theme |
Optional Courses | |
Contending Theories on Justice | Philosophical Discourses on Modernity and Postmodernity |
Diversity of Cultures and Multiculturalism: A Philosophical Study | Personal Identity |
Philosophy of Mind | Theories of Truth: Reading Quine, Davidson, Dummett and Putnam |
Facets of Existentialism | Discourses on Value |
Ethics in Practice | Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy |
Philosophy and Feminism | Philosophy and Literature |
Nagarjuna’s Critique of Essence (Svabhava) | Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science |
Philosophical Explorations of Indian Modernity | |
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